Remitted individuals were those who either reported abstaining in the past year, or those who were non-problem users as follows: they (a) used alcohol, but had no days of drinking five or more drinks in a day, and drank only four times per month or less in the past year; or used marijuana, but not more than once per month in the past year; (b) had no other drug use in the past year; (c) had no problems with friends or family, violent behavior, or suicidal ideations in the month prior to interview; and (d) had not been arrested, in jail/prison, under electronic home surveillance, or been to a probation or parole officer in the year prior to interview. This definition is consistent with other “non-problem use” and “remission” definitions in the literature (Moos and Moos, 2003; Ouimette et al., 2000) and we have used it in our previous published work (Chi et al., 2011; Mertens et al., 2008; Parthasarathy et al., in press; Satre et al., 2012). At 1-year follow-up these definitions were the same except that we only measured past month substance use.
